Getting started issues

[petems]

Hi All,

Awesome project, I'm trying to run my own denyhosts_sync server for my home setup, as I find denyhosts a lot easier to setup than fail2ban.

Some issues I'm having when setting up:

1. When trying to run ./setup.py minify_js minify_css install I get a message:

root@ubuntu-xenial:~/denyhosts_sync# sudo ./setup.py minify_js minify_css install
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'minify_js'

So the instruciton should be ./setup.py install minify_js minify_css. I'll open a PR for that

2. When trying to run those commands, I get the following error:

Using /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Finished processing dependencies for denyhosts-server==2.2.0
running minify_js
static/js/bootstrap.js -> static/js/bootstrap.min.js
error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

@janpascal @sergey-dryabzhinsky can you help? 😄

[janpascal]

Hi Peter,

I'll have to dive into it, but then I'll probably be able to help you on your way.

Jan-Pascal

[janpascal]

Hi Peter,

Sorry it's taken a while. Short answer: you need to install the yui-compressor package using apt-get. It is needed by the minify_{js,css} commands, as a dependency of the `minify' python package.

Long(ish) answer: it may help to install the following packages first:

apt-get install python-dev python-pip python-setuptools libgeoip-dev \
  geoip-database libpng-dev libxft-dev python-matplotlib python-twisted \
  libsodium-dev libffi-dev yui-compressor

Could you please try to see if that helps?

[janpascal]

Hi Peter,

To make things easier to setup, I've also been preparing a Debian package. You can install it from my personal repository. Add the line

deb http://www.vanbest.org/reprepro/ unstable main contrib non-free

to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Add my repository key with

wget -q -O- http://www.vanbest.org/janpascal/debian-archive-key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Then update your apt cache:

sudo apt-get update

and install the package with

sudo apt-get install denyhosts-server

The package will install in Debian Jessie (the current stable) with one or two packages from Stretch (testing). A current Ubuntu should also work, but I haven't tested. Installing the current version of the package (2.2.0-2) should result in a working installation with a sqlite database, which may not be suitable for large-scale use. You can edit the configuration file to change the database type to MySQL (create an empty database and a database user with full access rights first) and populate the database with

sudo su --shell=/bin/bash - denyhosts-server -c '/usr/bin/denyhosts-server --recreate-database'

Since you're using my personal Debian package repository, you may want to remove it from your '/etc/apt/sources.list' when you're done to prevent any of my experimental packages ending up in your system.

[petems]

Cool, I'll give that a go!

Is http://www.vanbest.org/reprepro/ the right link? It 404's for me

[janpascal]

On 2017-04-28 13:00, Peter Souter wrote: Cool, I'll give that a go! Is http://www.vanbest.org/reprepro/ the right link? It 404's for me

Yes, it's right. Apt will only use /reprepro/dist and /reprepro/pool and those both should work Jan-Pascal

[petems]

Ok, package seems to be working, but I'm getting two errors right now:

All the images are 404-ing

The bootstrap version complains the JQuery installed is too old: "Bootstrap's JavaScript requires jQuery version 1.9.1 or higher, but lower than version 4". That ones easier to fix (just downloaded the newer version and put it in the folder)

[janpascal]

Hi Peter, I'm away today, there's probably some path wrong in the package or configuration file. I'll check on it tonight Peter Souter <notifications@github.com> schreef op 28 april 2017 14:47:44 CEST:

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Ok, package seems to be working, but I'm getting two errors right now: All the images are 404-ing <img width="599" alt="screenshot 2017-04-28 13 45 33" src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1064715/25529194/fdb3e61c-2c18-11e7-8960-cf408d8786fc.png"> The bootstrap version complains the JQuery installed is too old: "Bootstrap's JavaScript requires jQuery version 1.9.1 or higher, but lower than version 4". That ones easier to fix (just downloaded the newer version and put it in the folder) -- You are receiving this because you modified the open/close state. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #34 (comment)

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[petems]

Cool, no rush or anything, don't want to disturb you if you're on a break! 😄

[janpascal]

There's two things:

• /var/cache/denyhosts-server/graph needs to be created and writeable by denyhosts-server (I'll fix this in the Debian packaging)
• the application will only generate the graphs if there is at least one report in the database (I'll document this in the README)

Hope this helps

[janpascal]

There's a new release (2.2.2) in my Debian repo now, which should fix the above issues and also (only) works with a mysql database. It was built for Debian stretch or unstable, so it should work in a recent Ubuntu as well. First install the mysql-server package, and only then the denyhosts-server package because it needs the mysql server to be configured and running before installation.

[petems]

Ok, so I've had a chance to get a basic Puppet setup to configure denyhosts-server

1. Would it be possible to make the dbconfig-mysql package a recomends rather than a require? I'm not a huge mysql fan, and the way that the mysql package creates passwords in the deb package is a bit of a pain so I've been using postgresql or sqlite database for now. Works fine, but have to jump through a few extra steps to install the package and pull the dbconfig-mysql package from backports/testing/unstable.

2. Can you add the debian packaging process into the repo? Similar to the First version of Debian packaging files #31 pr? I'm more used to the Ubuntu world, so having a Xenial native package as a PPA would be much better for me, plus converting it into an RPM for the CentOS world.

[petems]

If you're interested, setup is here: https://github.com/petems/petems-denyhosts_server